& sometimes Jesse Blum (trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, keyboards)
Influences
AMM, Keith Rowe, Philly Joe Jones, Dan Weiss, Milford Graves, Sonny Sharrock, Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, Luc Ferrari, Conlon Nancarrow, Alois Haba, Terry Riley, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre, Hrvatski, David S. Ware, Matthew Shipp, Miles Davis, Toru Takemitsu, Mort Garson, Harry Partch, John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Eric B, RZA, DJ Premier, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Oskar Sala, Tod Dockstader, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Dick Raaijmakers, Rune Lindblad, Steve Reich, Daniel Carter, William Parker, Mauricio Kagel, Tony Schwartz, Moe Asch, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Tony Conrad, John Eaton, Julian Carrillo, Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, Art Tatum, Jon Appleton, John McLaughlin, John Coltrane, Derek Bailey, Bruce Haack, Walter Marchetti, Morton Subotnick, Piero Umiliani, Ennio Morricone, Bertram Turetzky, Clifford Brown, Ilhan Mimaroglu, The Meters, James Brown, Morton Feldman, Francois Bayle, Bernard Parmegiani, Eric Dolphy, Harry Bertoia, Bill Fontana, Edward Artemiev, Henk Badings, Jean-Claude Risset, Iannis Xenakis, Henri Pousseur, Bengt Hambraeus, Michelangelo Antonioni, Guy Maddin, Werner Herzog, Seijun Suzuki, Samuel Fuller, Kenji Mizoguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, Woo Ping Yuen, Yimou Zhang, King Hu, Pier Paulo Passolini, Robert Altman, Roberto Rossellini, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean Renoir, Todd Solondz, Akira Kurosawa, Harmony Korine, Alain Resnais, Luchino Visconti, Maya Deren, Sergio Leone, John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson...
Hoichi The Earless is an ongoing improvisatory dialogue between Marcel Blum & Jerrold Kavanagh.
Marcel Blum is a turntablist, computer musician, and software developer based in New York. He is the creator of the award-winning Soundplant sample-triggering software, has released experimental electronic music on the Perhaps Transparent, Maz Sound Tools, Free103Point9, and Tom Furgas Editions labels as well as in self-produced limited editions, and has performed at various NYC new music venues. Marcel received a degree in Media Study and English from SUNY Buffalo, where he studied with Tony Conrad, and is currently proprietor of keymap records, a virtual auction house specializing in early electronic and experimental music vinyl rarities. Marcel's music, sometimes released under the alias Signplant, involves the use of turntables, field recordings, obsolesced appliances, and realtime DSP, drawing influences from early tape music, 20th century classical, bebop and free jazz, hip-hop, and IDM. [Marcel is currently seeking forward-thinking composers who wish to explore composing for turntable as an instrument and/or incorporating the turntable into larger ensembles. If you are interested in adding to the small body of work for this unique and still relatively new instrument and are looking for an experimental turntablist to perform, consult, or collaborate with, please get in touch.]
Jerrold Kavanagh is a multi instrumentalist hailing from Staten Island, NY. Focusing on the drum set, he maintains an active performance schedule in the New York City area with ensembles of varying taste and style and has studied under a host of renowned players.
WILLIAM SIDES ATARI PARTY Northeastern U.S. Tour March 20-28:
Wednesday, March 25th: New York, NY @ The Tank 354 W. 45th St. w/ STARSCREAM, INSECT DELI, OVERSATURATED and BUBBLYFISH
Thursday, March 26th: Brooklyn, NY @ Coco 66 66 Greenpoint Ave. (Right across the street from Alligator Greenpoint) w/ XRIN ARMS, GRAFFITI MONSTERS, INSECT DELI, RADIO SHOCK and 8-BIT BETTY
